Social theory as the natural law of ‘artificial’ social relations

2013 ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Daniel Chernilo
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Natural Law

The Imposter as Social Theory

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Forms

Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

scholarly journals Biographical dimension of terminal illness or is there an alternative to medicine?

Inter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Startsev
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Treatment Strategy ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Dominant Model ◽  
Analytic Methods ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biomedical Paradigm

The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitude to traditional medicine. The author examines the biographical choices of the informant and the problem of not following the medicalist treatment strategy. Optics using analytic methods and social theory, the author seeks to show that living biographer’s disease and agree with the diagnosis of a life inextricably linked with the social relations within which these terms aventureuse, namely in the framework of relations “doctor-patient”. The analysis of this social dyad using the methods of anthropology and narratology brings us closer to the understanding of disease as a phenomenon mediated by the cultural codes of society, the dominant model of which is the biomedical paradigm of studying the “diseased body”.

Cartographies of social transnationalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Mike Savage ◽  
Niall Cunningham ◽  
David Reimer ◽  
Adrian Favell
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
Post War

The chapter takes up the challenge of a ‘cartography of social transnationalism’ first proposed by Steffen Mau (2010) in his study of German nationals in the post-war period. It emphasises, as Mau did, the need to find modes of operationalising the grand, abstract social theory of globalisation at a regional European scale. Using EUCROSS data on Europeans’ familiarity of other countries, the chapter maps variations in global connections across the six countries of the EUCROSS study, going on to map for each the particular cartography of their citizens’ social relations within Europe. It also visualises the kind of stratification apparently inherent in access to these transnational lifestyles. European nations still have quite specific, historically rooted ‘imperial’ relations with the rest of the world, something which anchors their overall geo-politics.

Social Theory and the Critique of Capitalism in a Communication Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick O'Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Normative Reconstruction ◽  
Theoretical Developments

The essay attempts to re-contextualise the normative import of capitalism in the light of modern social theoretical developments. It firstly explores the significance in this regard of the procedural turn in both social theory and political philosophy. While important, this turn has come at the price of a loss of focus on the substantive plane of how unjust social relations – such as those often arising from capitalist structures – diminish the moral capacities of democratic institutions to shape social change. The essay goes on to show in the second section how Axel Honneth (2004, 2007), offering a partial corrective, combines a procedural emphasis on communication with a substantive account of embedded normative structures, opening the way to a differentiated sociological approach that remains normative but not one-sidedly transcendent and deontological. Taking a lead from these reflections, the third section presents a social theoretical architecture concerned both with social structures and processes and with normative grounding, balancing a perspective drawn from sociological constructivism with normative reconstruction. Finally, in the concluding section, the foregoing is brought to bear on the study of capitalism in a manner that is intended to open up new avenues for its critical theoretical exploration.

scholarly journals Private Law and Human Rights

Dixi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Maxym Tkalych ◽  
Oksana Safonchyk ◽  
Yuliia Tolmachevska
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Freedom Of Contract ◽  
The Social

Point of view: One of the basic concepts that underlies law as a phenomenon, as well as private law as one of the two areas of law, is the concept of natural law. This concept presupposes that rights and freedoms are an inalienable good of every person, regardless of the will of any external institutions. The ideas of natural law have been expressed in the concept of private law (the fundamental principles of private law are such principles as justice, good faith, reasonableness, dispositiveness, legal certainty, inadmissibility of interference in private affairs, inviolability of property rights, and freedom of contract). Object: The subject of the study is the problems of reforming of private law in modern conditions. The object of research is the social relations that arise in the plane of «person-person» and «state-person» in modern transformation processes. Methodology: The research methodology is formed by methods of analysis, synthesis, and modeling. Additionally, logical-legal, comparative-legal forecasting methods are used. The authors of the article tried to draw a parallel between the concepts of natural law, Roman law and private law. Results and discussion: An analysis of these concepts revealed that each of them is an integral part of the concept of modern Western civilization. At the same time, in modern conditions of pandemic, deglobalization, regionalization, collapse of human rights and the very concept of Western civilization, which is based on the ideas of humanism, liberalism, absolute human rights, inviolability of property rights and respect for privacy, are under threat.

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